For everyday nothing special cooking, I think that it is safe to assume that everyone can do that by default. Just like how it is apparently a common skill to make slings and clubs.
You can't do profession cook untrained, so it'd be a craft food check.
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Profession: Cook
Craft: food
The difference is, the professional would know how to actually run a business.
Not a skill to cook a basic meal.
To create a quality meal, such as one served at a restaurant, Profession (Cook). The profession skill covers buying/preparing the ingredients, presentation, knowing which wine to serve to complement the flavors, etc., as well as just cooking the individual dish.
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Profession and Craft were always weird for me.
If i have Profession: Blacksmith, what can i do in contrast to Craft: Weapons and Armor.
And / or is Craft Weapons and Craft Armor 2 different skills that i have to divide my skill points up between in order to be able to make weapons and armor.
To relate it to this
What can i do with Profession cook that i couldn't do with craft food
What can i do with craft food that i couldn't do with Profession cook
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Profession and Craft were always weird for me.
To relate it to this
What can i do with Profession cook that i couldn't do with craft food
You can run a restaurant: manage your staff, market your product, maintain an inventory, handle your books, plan for large events, etc You can also evaluate those activities when they are performed by others.
What can i do with craft food that i couldn't do with Profession cook
You can cook and present food, be it small but elegant meal or a five tier wedding cake sculpted in the kings likeness. Someone else probably handled all the logistics not involving actual food preparation.
Craft: Food is what you would give your grandmother, whose apple pie is famous county wide. She's never run a business, but damn, grandma can cook.
what kind of skill is cooking?
The Beginner Box doesn't have any Craft skills or Profession skills.
What are you trying to accomplish?
Do you want your character to make food for the rest of the party?
Are you trying to sell food you make?
How are you trying to use that skill?
Profession and Craft were always weird for me.
To relate it to this
What can i do with Profession cook that i couldn't do with craft foodYou can run a restaurant: manage your staff, market your product, maintain an inventory, handle your books, plan for large events, etc You can also evaluate those activities when they are performed by others.
What can i do with craft food that i couldn't do with Profession cookYou can cook and present food, be it small but elegant meal or a five tier wedding cake sculpted in the kings likeness. Someone else probably handled all the logistics not involving actual food preparation.
Craft: Food is what you would give your grandmother, whose apple pie is famous county wide. She's never run a business, but damn, grandma can cook.
Which is odd, because I imagine that the restaurateur would be higher on intelligence and the grandmother higher in wisdom.
Which is odd, because I imagine that the restaurateur would be higher on intelligence and the grandmother higher in wisdom.Profession and Craft were always weird for me.
To relate it to this
What can i do with Profession cook that i couldn't do with craft foodYou can run a restaurant: manage your staff, market your product, maintain an inventory, handle your books, plan for large events, etc You can also evaluate those activities when they are performed by others.
What can i do with craft food that i couldn't do with Profession cookYou can cook and present food, be it small but elegant meal or a five tier wedding cake sculpted in the kings likeness. Someone else probably handled all the logistics not involving actual food preparation.
Craft: Food is what you would give your grandmother, whose apple pie is famous county wide. She's never run a business, but damn, grandma can cook.
All of that is irrelevant.
The Beginner Box doesn't have Craft skills or Profession skills.
This is the Beginner Box forum
The original poster cannot use any of those options.
Or, you know, it's just in the wrong forum. Chill out, dude.
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This is something the Beginner Box mostly abstracts over. The GM could simply decree basic cooking doesn't require a roll and move on. If folks want to roll to see how well their cooking went (my GM had us all roll to see who was responsible for meals on the road—never me!) or players are cooking under adverse conditions, there are a few ways to work that. For example, if the players scavenging for food in the wilderness, you could use Knowledge (nature) to identify edibles and how to prepare them. Otherwise, I'd use either a straight-up Intelligence check (if someone taught you to cook) or Wisdom check (if you're winging it/cooking "to taste"), but with a lower difficulty since players can't modify those rolls as much. And probably people can think of a few more.
On the other hand, selectively integrating rules like the skills mentioned above from the Core Rulebook is a great way to bridge between the Beginner Box and the full Pathfinder rules! In which case, the folks above have it covered. ^_^